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Fashion: A Manifesto

by Anouchka Grose

‘Delicious and substantive. Grose’s wry tone makes her manifesto a joy, but this small book (enticingly produced, with pink cloth covers) has a serious intent.’ Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine

‘Wearing her expertise lightly, if not her wardrobe, psychoanalyst and writer Anouchka Grose steers us through the fashion system’s tangled web of desire, drama and identity politics – and, more recently, a growing sense of guilt about its environmental impact . . . Short, racy and enjoyable as a Vivienne Westwood mini-crini.’ V&A magazine

Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking

‘Here is a book as certain to lift the spirits as the activity to which it is dedicated: going for a walk.’ Country Life

‘A beguiling panorama of wanderers from different eras and geographies. . . Like his subjects, Minshull wanders, lifting contributions from people all over the literary map: philosophers, novelists, essayists, critics, children’s authors.’ New Yorker

A Strange Life – Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

by Louisa May Alcott

‘In bringing together opinion pieces, travelogues and personal snippets, this pocket-sized volume opens fascinating windows into Alcott’s mind.’
Times Literary Supplement

‘A Strange Life is a thorough pleasure. Modest in size and design – it’ll fit in a pocket – the book puts emphasis where it belongs: on the vigorous prose of one of America’s most charming and memorable stylists.’ Wall Street Journal

Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt

by Alison Leslie Gold

‘This memoir captures the rough texture of lived experience in a way that often eludes more straightforward autobiography.’
Times Literary Supplement

Alison Leslie Gold (1945-2025) was best known for works that kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival – most famously her Anne Frank Remembered, co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family). She never wrote about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people’s stories, until Found and Lost, in which she chose to go back to her childhood in order to chart the origin of her need to save objects, stories, people – including herself – who she sensed to be on a road to perdition.

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